Moritz Willers wrote: > Now I know this is unlikely to happen, but I would like to throw this in > for consideration on whatever is being worked on: > > We have written a lot of packages that consist mainly of postinstall > scripts, i.e. not delivering any functionality, but merely adding to the > configuration of the system. Those packages caused us much grief as we > tried to adopt zones, cause us grief during upgrades of our systems > (where we tend to replace our in-house developed packages, but need to > skip those that do system configuration work), cause us grief as we are > looking at other provisioning systems... > > If here was a sysidcfg API we wouldn't have to do system configuration > through postinstall scripts in packages. > > Whilst I title this and mention a "sysidcfg API", I doubt that will ever > come to fruition. It merely is a plea to consider other system > configuration, but those provided by the OS install mechanism, and open > any future technologies so we as a user can hook into it. > > - mo (kind of hoping that this mail can be answered with a RTFM link to > the Caiman documentation:)) > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss
The IPS (Image Packaging System) project is working on a generic solution to the "run this at first restart" after service startup. This should be a much mor erobust solution to your problem, and provides a known context for execution. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts
